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Mackenyu

Actor | * 11/16/1996 (27) | Los Angeles, California (United States of America (USA))
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Mackenyu Maeda (前田 真剣佑, Maeda Makken'yū, born November 16, 1996), known professionally as Mackenyu Arata (Japanese: 新田 真剣佑, Hepburn: Arata Makken'yū) or simply Mackenyu, is a Japanese actor. He is the son of actor and martial artist Sonny Chiba. Mackenyu rose to fame after portraying Arata Wataya in the Chihayafuru live-action trilogy in 2016, which earned him the 40th Japan Academy Newcomers of the Year Award in 2017. He has since portrayed characters in many other adaptations of popular manga series, including JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable Chapter I (2017), Tokyo Ghoul S (2019), the villain Yukishiro Enishi in Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (2021), the protagonist Pegasus Seiya in Knights of the Zodiac and Roronoa Zoro in the Netflix series One Piece (2023). ()
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Mackenyu Arata or Mackenyu Maeda is a Japanese-American actor born in Tokyo and raised in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of Japanese actor, producer, director, and martial artist, Sonny Chiba.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Action | Adventure

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Movies with Mackenyu as Actor(27)

as Aoi Nishino2021 Brave: Gunjyo Senki
as Enishi Yukishiro2021 Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
as Makoto2021 The Master Plan
as Aki Miyata2020 Our 30-Minute Sessions
as Minato Hirose2020 Kaiji: Final Game
as Nomura Yusaku2020 Remotely Killed
as Haru (voice)2019 NiNoKuni
as Shinjirou2019 12 Suicidal Teens
as Ryoichi2018 Pacific Rim: Uprising
as Arata Wataya2018 Chihayafuru Part III
as Akio Kishida2018 Code Blue: The Movie
as Naozumi Hiyama2018 Over Drive
as Kazuya Toujigamori2017 Peach Girl
as Kosuke Yamashita2017 Let's Go, Jets!
as Asao Momose2017 IMPOSSIBILITY DEFENSE
as Atsushi Babazono2016 Bitter Sweet
as Arata Wataya2016 Chihayafuru Part I
as Arata Wataya2016 Chihayafuru Part II
as Makino Hikaru2016 Night's Tightrope
as George2015 Tadaima
2007 Oyaji

TV Shows/Series with Mackenyu as Actor(12)

as Roronoa Zoro2023 ONE PIECE
as Ishikura Bunta2021 Ichikei's Crow
as Sawada Makoto / Onose Makoto2021 Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later
as Aoi Kijima2019 Our Dearest Sakura
as Takauji Namiki2018 Kiss that Kills
as Wataya Arata2018 Chihayafuru: Connect
as Tetsuto Ichihashi2017 Fugitive Boys
as Kitora Ren2016 Brass Dreams
as Seiko2015 To Give a Dream
as 佐々木幸次郎2015 Hatsumori Bemars

Additional Information

Born: Saturday, 11/16 1996 (November) in Los Angeles, California (United States of America (USA)) (current age: 27 years + 134 days)
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN, native language), Japanese (JA, native language)
Educated at: Beverly Hills High School
Siblings: Gordon Maeda, Juri Manase
Father: Sonny Chiba
Other names for Mackenyu (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"新田真剣佑"
"あらた まっけんゆう"
"真剣佑"
"Mackenyu Arata"
"新田真剑佑"
"Mackenyu Maeda"
"Macken"
"前田 真剣佑"
"まっけんゆう" (Kana/Japanese)
Mackenyu frequently works together with these people:
Masaru Ohgawara (12x, Crew)
Norihiro Koizumi (8x, Crew)
Tsubasa Honda (4x, Actress)
Suzu Hirose (4x, Actress)
Jun Kunimura (4x, Actor)
Takeshi Miyamoto (4x, Crew)
Mayu Matsuoka (3x, Actress)
Masaru Yokoyama (3x, Crew)
Nathan Longest (3x, Crew)
Yuina Kuroshima (3x, Actress)
Minegishi Kiara (3x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:64690, Added: 05/23/2018, Last updated: 03/26/2024